UPDATE: Meredith Schwartz at LJ has posted a report about the filing that includes a comment from one of the author’s, Jonathan Band. From an Association for Research Libraries (ARL) News Release: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), who all [...]
ARL, ALA, and ACRL File Brief with U.S. Supreme Court in in Support of Lending Rights
Filed by on July 3, 2012
ARL's Brandon Butler Interviewed on CNN About SOPA
Filed by on December 9, 2011
Libraries: Let Profs and Film Students Continue to Rip DVDs
Filed by on December 2, 2011
From an ARL Policy Notes Post by Brandon Butler: In a rich submission to the Copyright Office [PDF] on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance, Jonathan Band asks the Office to renew its rule allowing college professors and film and media students to decrypt DVDs for educational uses. The submission is part of the administration [...]

